Description

SO 95 68 STOKE PRIOR CP AVONCROFT MUSEUM OF BUILDINGS
Stoke Heath

17/95 Plas Cadwgan

- II

Part of a house. Probably C14, re-erected 1976. Timber-frame supported by
steel frame and concrete, corrugated iron roof. Two trusses of an open hall;
the central cruck truss and the spere truss; the latter is in the form of an
aisled truss, the aisle posts rise to meet the principal rafters, above the
high-set collar is a king-post supporting the ridge with longitudinal braces;
arch-braces rise from the aisle posts to the purlins; the screen in the spere
is fixed with a floor over the through-passage forming a gallery. The wind-
braces are cusped. Removed from Plas Cadwgan, Esclusham, Denbighshire in 1968.
(P Smith, Houses of the Welsh Countryside. A Study in Historical Geography,
1975, figs 51, 54d, 57a, 66a and pl 25).

Listing NGR: SO9516868497

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26461126

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Recommended Books

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  This Old House: Restoring, Rehabilitating, and Renovating an Older House
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  Essex: Buildings of England Series (Buildings of England) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Hertfordshire (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  [(Shropshire)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1958)
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  Bedfordshire, Huntingdonshire, and Peterborough (Pevsner Architectural Guides) (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Department for Communities Listed Historic Buildings of Northern Ireland: Information Guide for the 2nd Survey of Historic Buildings